Hat-packing support



(No Model.) 1

' G. S. PEGK 8v E. S. DAVIS.

HAT PAGKING SUPPORT.

Patented July 2, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLA S. PEOK AND EDWARD S. DAVIS, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

HAT-PACKING SU PPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 106,111, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed March 25, 1889. Serial No. 304,741. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, COLA S. PECK and EDWARD S. DAVIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Packing Supports; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates tohat-packing supports and it consists in providing a removable frame within the band-box, said frame having extending diametrically therein a series of flexible strips for supporting the hats at the sides, and a single strip extending in a plane at rightangles to the previously-mentioned strips for supporting the hats at the front and rear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of a band-box having hats packed therein in accordance with our improvement; Fig. 2, a section at right angles to that shown at Fig. 1, the hats being shown in elevation; and Fig. 3, a detail perspectiye of our improved packing-sup port.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures.

A is a frame made from pasteboard and of awidth calculated to snugly fit within thesides of an ordinary band-box B.

O are rings of paper or other flexible material, which are secured to the opposite sides of the frame by pasting. These rings are in a series one above the other, and are of such capacity as to closely lit a hat when the latter is inserted therein. The top ring may be adapted to be opened by having overlapping flaps fastened by any suitable pin 1, the object of this being to permit of the removal of the top hat without taking out the frame.

D is a strip of paper or flexible material which extends underneath the bottom ring and may or may not be attached thereto. After the hats have been inserted within the rings 0, the strip D is drawn up, so as to snugly embrace the nest of hats at the front and rear of the brims, the free ends of said strip being pinned together, as shown at 2.

WVe claim- 1. A hat-packing support comprising aframe snugly fitting Within a band-box and removable therefrom, and a series of flexible rings secured one above'the other to opposite sides of said frame, substantially as set forth.

2. A hat-packing support comprising a frame snugly fitting within a band-box and removable therefrom, a series of flexible rings secured one above the other to opposite sides of said frame, and a single strip of paper or other flexible material extending beneath the lower ring and at right angles thereto and adapted to be drawn up snugly against the front and rear edges of the brims, substantially as shown and described.

3. A hat-packing support comprising a frame, a series of flexible rings secured within said frame one above the other, and a single flexible ring extending around said series in a plane at right angles thereto, substantially as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

COLA S. PECK. EDWARD S. DAVIS.

\Vitnesses:

CARROLL D. RYDER, LEVI P. TREADWELL. 

